September 11, 2015

What was in the news on Sept. 10, 1965?

The pope to visit the United Nations, sympathy for flood victims and a prediction for a long council session

Criterion logo from the 1960sBy Brandon A. Evans

This week, we continue to examine what was going on in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through the pages of The Criterion.

Here are some of the items found in the Sept. 10, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Pope Paul VI to visit UN on October 4 in appeal for peace
    • “VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI will go to the United Nations on Monday, Oct. 4, to make a personal appeal for world peace, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. Observers stated that the current hostilities in Pakistan have heightened the pontiff’s concern, and prompted his decision to make an historic visit to UN headquarters in New York. The pope’s visit will mark the first time that a Roman pontiff has set foot in the Western Hemisphere in the 2,000-year history of the papacy.”
  • Weeping pope tours flood area
    • “PRIMA PORTA, Italy—His face bathed in tears and sweat, his slippers covered with mud, the Bishop of Rome moved about in the midst of the flood-victimized people here, extending his compassion and blessing. There has been no scene quite like this since Pope Pius XII walked through the bombed rubble of the San Lorenzo district of Rome during the Second World War.”
  • Pope again asks prayer for council
  • Bequests total $60,000
  • Catholic position on birth control
  • Catholics and Lutherans hold ecumenical meeting in France
  • Vernacular poses mission problem
  • Display fashion for nuns
  • Pope pays tribute to U.S. seminaries
  • Koreans baptized in group rite
  • Clergy ‘conversation day’
  • Aids in teaching social doctrine
  • First Communion at age 100
  • Rome cites role of contemplation
  • Hymns are revised in Marian novena
  • Stillman given Newman Award
  • LBJ hails ‘Youth Week’
  • Widower, 60, set to join 2 sons in Benedictine abbey
  • Cites need for dignity in liturgical art
  • New Basilica doors installed
  • S. Dakota priest heads liturgy body
  • School integration target date set
  • Work seen progressing on plan for ‘Liturgical Common Market’
  • Radiation center on ND campus
  • Parish concelebration allowed in Paris
  • Attacks on Catholics, Church grow in Mexico
  • Predicts council may not end until Easter
    • “NEW YORK—The fourth session of the Vatican council, which begins September 14, may last until Easter, April 10, 1966, Bishop Ernest J. Primeau of Manchester, N.H. said here. … Bishop Primeau said the pope’s sacristan, Bishop Pietro van Lierde, thought the fourth session would be the last, ‘but it would have two parts,’ with a recess for Christmas. ‘My own mind is that we have such an enormous work to do that it very well may last these two parts of the next session,’ Bishop Primeau said, ‘particularly since four of the constitutions are to be discussed for the first time, and we have found that the gestation period of any schema is two sessions, up to now. Now we are being asked to do four of them in one session.’ ”
  • Council Box Score
  • Peru institution to benefit from project at ND

(Read all of these stories from our Sept. 10, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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